a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid);
"he had a drop too much to drink"
"a drop of each sample was analyzed"
"there is not a drop of pity in that man"
"years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet"
driblet的用法和样例:
例句
The merchant could only pay the laborer in driblets. 那商人只能零星地付给那工人工钱。
名词
经典引文
These bits of information were imparted..in driblets and with caution.